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The D.I.s - Rare Cuts !

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08/06/2013 03:09PM

The D.I.s - Rare Cuts!

(as part of the Deluxe 2CD set Gears "Rockin' At Ground Zero" album reissue)

01. Taylor Yard Blues

02. Your Dad's A Cop

03. Leave Love To Me

04. Mohawk vs. DA

05. Devil's Music

06. Pray For Surf

07. The Drive

08. Hot Bitch

09. Yo-yo

10. People Like Me

11. Number

12. Is There A God?

13. Shot Down

14. Tears In My Beer

15. Down In Downey

16. White Dress

17. Mr. Soul

18. Sight For Sore Eyes

19. Jezebel

20. Drinkin' With My Friends

21. D. Island

22. Livin', Is Lovin', Was You

This deluxe edition of the Gears album is packaged with a second CD from Axxel G. Reese’s post-Gears band, The D.I.s (not to be confused with D.I., the Casey Royer led band that spawned out of the Adolescents). The band had a longer life than The Gears but was less prolific, recording a bunch of songs but only releasing one 12'' EP.

The music of The D.I.s is a mix of punk, rockabilly, blues, and good old fashioned rock and roll. You can kind of hear how had the Gears stayed together they could very well have evolved into this style of music. They were pretty ahead of their time as now this style of music has become much more popular than it was over 20 years ago when The D.I.s were around. The disc contains 22 songs and is a pretty solid listen from start to finish and if these guys were around now, they’d probably be quite popular.

This deluxe package contains two CDs in full digipak packaging with full artwork. Each disc contains a small poster with photos and flyers and while The Gears disc barely contains any liner notes at all, The D.I.s disc had much more useful and informative liner notes. The lack of lyrics or any real liner notes is my only complaint about the whole thing. The Gears material was remastered and sounds better than any of the previous issues and The D.I.s stuff sounds equally fantastic.

Considering the quality of both bands, I can’t see any reason why anyone interested in The Gears album wouldn’t pick up this deluxe edition, the second disc is well worth the extra cost and overall this reissue package was really well done and certainly worth picking up for new fans as well as old ones who may own the previous edition of Rockin’ At Ground Zero. (Punkvinyl.com)

Although the D.I.s soldiered on through 1992, they left only one recording in their wake - the aforementioned five-track 12" EP "Lock & Load," produced by X's Billy Zoom. As well as being available as part of The Gears' Rockin' at Ground Zero (Deluxe Edition), fans can purchase it separately as The D.I.s: Rare Cuts!, for a $14.98 list price. Jonny Whiteside, known for his encyclopedic knowledge of punk and roots music, wrote the liner notes.

A historical note: When Tipper Gore began her tirade against filth and pornography in pop music, she did so one afternoon on live television outside Tower Records on Sunset Blvd., brandishing a copy of the D.I.s' Lock & Load, sputtering, "This is exactly what I'm talking about." Tower sold 500 copies in less than a week. (Pluginmusic.com)

 Comments

great post! unfortunately I get an error message whenever I try to decompress the file "The structure of the archive is damaged (Error #17540)"

Are you sure it didn't get damaged when uploading? that would be a pity as this is great stuff

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sto 01/16/2014 09:44AM

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It's a shame Laurent (whichever one you are) but no worries: try and repair the archive using Winrar as I always put recovery record option on when creating them. Otherwise, simply download the file again as I just did and it works perfectly fine. Don't get damaged in the way eh?! Cheers!

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francesco 07/24/2014 07:24PM

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precious stuff my friend!
thank you very much!
sorry but what about "autistic behaviour"lp on entrèes?
I'm looking for it...